From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752657AbYKYIr3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:47:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751928AbYKYIrV (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:47:21 -0500 Received: from tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.34]:44330 "EHLO tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751038AbYKYIrU (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:47:20 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsoEAEhHK0lMROB9/2dsb2JhbACBbc9kgnw Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:47:18 -0500 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt , ltt-dev@lists.casi.polymtl.ca, Ingo Molnar , Sam Ravnborg , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [ltt-dev] LTTng kernel integration roadmap, update Message-ID: <20081125084718.GA28206@Krystal> References: <20081124112842.GA15615@Krystal> <20081124114124.GA32459@infradead.org> <20081124122055.GA18626@Krystal> <20081125082414.GA28031@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081125082414.GA28031@infradead.org> X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.21.3-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 03:46:51 up 8 days, 9:27, 1 user, load average: 0.37, 0.59, 0.53 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org) wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 07:20:55AM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > The key idea behind this is to answer to Thomas Gleixner concerns, who > > supports that a tracer should output data in text-format only so it can > > be used with tools kernel developers have on their system, like "cat". > > Last time I talked to Thomas and others it wasn't "text only" but text > also in that you can just cat a debugfs file for simple tracing. And I > totally agree with that. If you don't trace too much that's absolutely > enough. It's not enough for large traces on highly loaded enterprise > or high-end embedded systems or things like flight recorder tracing, but > for those requiring an external viewer is just fine. > Ok, thanks for the clarification. This will be pretty much straightforward to implement. Mathieu > > _______________________________________________ > ltt-dev mailing list > ltt-dev@lists.casi.polymtl.ca > http://lists.casi.polymtl.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ltt-dev > -- Mathieu Desnoyers OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68